U+FB33 "דּ" Hebrew Letter Dalet with Dagesh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB33 "דּ" Hebrew Letter Dalet with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Dalet (ד) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter that historically indicates a geminated (doubled) pronunciation or, in modern Hebrew, often distinguishes a plosive articulation of the letter from a fricative one. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block of Unicode, which was created for compatibility with existing text encodings and to simplify rendering by providing a single codepoint for common letter-diacritic combinations. In Hebrew script, the dalet with dagesh appears in various contexts, including biblical texts, liturgical works, and some modern publications where precise orthographic representation is required, though in many digital environments the equivalent sequence of the base letter followed by the combining dagesh (U+05D3 U+05BC) is used instead.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB33
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Dalet with Dagesh
Block Alphabetic Presentation Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding דּ
HTML Hex Encoding דּ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAC 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB33
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB33
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb33

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
NFKC Simple Casefold "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
Script Hebrew
Script Extensions Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Hebrew Letter
Sentence Break OLetter